Clone disk image

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Andre De Clercq

I have a recent image file from my 20GB system disk(C) on another physical
disk (F) in my system. I want replace my 20GB disk by a 80GB and put the
image on the larger disk. Is this possible, and will the new disk
automatically get partitioned. Thanks for any advise.
 
Andre De Clercq said:
I have a recent image file from my 20GB system disk(C) on another physical
disk (F) in my system. I want replace my 20GB disk by a 80GB and put the
image on the larger disk. Is this possible, and will the new disk
automatically get partitioned. Thanks for any advise.
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Yes it's possible to clone to the larger drive, no it won't automatically
get partitioned

rgds
Roberto
 
Andre De Clercq said:
I have a recent image file from my 20GB system disk(C) on another physical
disk (F) in my system. I want replace my 20GB disk by a 80GB and put the
image on the larger disk. Is this possible, and will the new disk
automatically get partitioned. Thanks for any advise.
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It depends on the imaging tool you use. Some will partition
the new disk automatically, others won't. What do you intend
to use?
 
Yes it's possible to clone to the larger drive, no it won't automatically
get partitioned

rgds
Roberto
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When cloning a physical hard drive, the new "cloned" drive will automatically
have at least the same partition size as the original drive. Unless you
configure the cloning software correctly, the new drive will not
automatically have the "cloned" created partition expanded to the newer drive
size.
 
Yves Leclerc said:
When cloning a physical hard drive, the new "cloned" drive will automatically
have at least the same partition size as the original drive.
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Some cloning products, e.g. Acronis True Image, will happily
clone a larger partition to a smaller partition, provided there is
sufficient room for the existing data on the target disk.
 
Andre De Clercq said:
I have a recent image file from my 20GB system disk(C) on another physical
disk (F) in my system. I want replace my 20GB disk by a 80GB and put the
image on the larger disk. Is this possible, and will the new disk
automatically get partitioned. Thanks for any advise.
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An image retains the partition information, included in that is the file
allocation table. An image restoration must recreate the partition to
include the file allocation table intact. The partition to be made larger
is usually an option within the restoration portion of the imaging program.
Of which, you did not divulge what that particular application and version
are.

A clone is a result of a direct copy of a hard disk to another BARE hard
disk. Not related to imaging or restoration of an image which is something
else entirely.

Copying an image file is not recommended (another interpretation of your
post). Only use the original for restoration.
 
Andre De Clercq said:
I have a recent image file from my 20GB system disk(C) on another physical
disk (F) in my system. I want replace my 20GB disk by a 80GB and put the
image on the larger disk. Is this possible, and will the new disk
automatically get partitioned. Thanks for any advise.
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If your imaging software restores the image to a 20 gb partition on
the new drive you can use BootItNG from www.bootitng.com to adjust the
size of the partition so as to use the entire 80 gb drive. The 30
day trial version is fully functional.

Good luck

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